The Fair Moon of Bath (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Fair Moon of Bath On the sloping bank by the roadside, half shadowed by a little group of trees, lay a girl, fast asleep. She was wrapped in a handsome riding-cloak, her head was resting upon a pile of tapestried cushions, and on the tiny shoe that peeped below the hem of her brocaded skirt a small diamond buckle ¿ashed in the shimmering light. Timothy rubbed his eyes and looked again. The girl's hood had fallen back, revealing her face nestling against an aureole of amber-coloured hair, she seemed to Timothy very fair. He dismounted and crossed the road to her side. The moonbeams stole between the shadowy leaves and played about her form. He stood looking down on her in silence. The dark lashes lay softly on the rounded cheeks, she was sleeping very quietly. A sudden overwhelming desire seized him to learn the colour of her eyes. The lids were full, oval, fringed with dark lashes, the raising of such lids is as the drawing back of the curtains of the night. He longed to see them open, to gaze into the depths beneath. He had a fancy the eyes would be blue, it came upon him as a conviction they must be blue, but he wanted to see for himself. She slept peacefully. Timothy looked at the rosy parted lips and drew in his breath, surely it was his prerogative. Then he dismissed the thought sternly, and kneeling beside her took her hand softly in his and pressed it to his lips. He lifted his head and nodded gravely to the moon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.